Ticket-holder



A. EMILIANI AND 1. ROSSINI. TICKET HOLDER. APPLICATION FILED JULY 24, I920.

Patented Feb. 15,1921

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AUGUST EMTLIAINI; 0F DUNMOBE, AND JOSHUA. ROSSINI, OF OLYPHANT, ?ENNSYL- VANIA.

TICKET-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Feb. 15, 1921.

p Application filed July 24, 1920. Serial No. 398,669.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, AUGUs'r EMILIANI and JOSHUA ROSSINI, a subject of the King of Italy and a citizen of the United States,

respectively, residing at Dunmore and Olyphant, respectively, in the county of Lackawanna and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Ticket-Holders, of which the following is a specification. r g

The object of our present joint invention is the provision of a ticket holder readily operable by an authorized person for the re:

provement as hereinafter described and definitely claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, hereby made a part hereof Figure 1 is a front elevation of our novel ticket holder.

Fig. 2 is a vertical central section taken g1 the plane indicated by the line 22 of Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail section showing the manner of applying the key through the medium of which the ticket holder is controlled.

Fig. 4 is a detail view taken at right angles to Fig. 2 and hereinafter explicitly referred to.

Similar numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all of the views of the drawings.

Among other elements our novel ticket holder comprises a casing body 1 having a slot 2 in its body for the deposit of the ticket to be held and also having a chute 3 in registration with the slot. The said chute 3 is formed between a front wall 4 and a false front wall 5, and the lower end of the chute is arranged above an eduction opening 6 designed to deliver a ticket to a receiver tion on .the ticket is exhibited. The front wall 4 is further provided below the opening 9 with a notch 10 said notch 10 being formed in the inner side of the front wall. Formed in the top wall of the casing body 1 adjacent to the back wall thereof is an opening 11. V

In addition to the casing body 1 characterized as stated, the ticket holder comprises a vertically swinging cover 12, a ticket support 13, a rockable key piece 14, and connections between said rockable key piece and the support 13 as hereinafter set forth. The cover 12 is pivoted at 15, and is provided with a guard arm 16 that works through the before mentioned opening 11. Consequently when the cover 12 is opened for the insertion of a ticket to be exhibited, the guard arm 16 will be swung forwardly through the opening 17 in the false wall 5 so as to intersect the chute 3 and prevent the gravitation of the card or ticket to its exhibition position until the cover 12 is closed. Manifestly this provision is calculated to effectively prevent the surreptitious removal of a ticket or card through the slot 2. Fixed to and extending forwardly from the back wall of the casing body 1 is a spindle 18, arranged in alinement with the openings 8, and on the said spindle is revolubly mounted the rockable key piece 14; said key piece being of angular form in cross section, Figs. 1 and 2, and being designed to be turned by an authorized person through the medium of the key 19 shown in Fig. 3. The rockable key piece 14 is provided with a lateral arm 20, Figs. 2 and 4, and said arm 20 is connected, in turn,

'with a rod 21 the lower end of which is connected to the rear arm of a lever 23 the forward end of which is connected by a link 22 with the support 13, Fig. 2. Said support 13 is pivoted at 23 and is normally held in the position shown in Fig. 2 by one or more spring strips 24. As its name imports the support 13 is designed to support the ticket in such position that the inscription on the ticket will be displayed through the opening 9. The said ticket is effectively held against removal by the support 13. When, however, an authorized person wishes to remove the ticket from the holder it is simply necessary for such person to position the key 19 on the key piece 14 and then turn the key about its axis when the support 13 will be swung downwardly and hence will permit the ticket i that we have provided a ticket holder which to drop through the slot 6 into the receiver 7 orinto the operators hand placed to receive it. When the key 19 is removed the spring or springs 24 will operate to promptly return the support 13 to its normal position in which position the forward end of the support will rest in the notch 10 so as to,

break joints with the front wall 4 of the casing body and thereby lessen theliability of unauthorized movement of the support 13 by a person seeking to remove the exhibited ticket in a wrongful manner.

It will be apparent from the foregoing is not unduly expensive and yet may be de pended upon to hold and exhibit a ticket or the like in such manner that the ticket cannot be removed and replaced with another ticket by an unauthorized person.

Having described our invention, what we claim and desire to secure by Letters-Patent, is

1. The combination in a ticket holder of a hollow casing body having a slot in its top wall and an opening in said top wall in rear to support a ticket or card dropped through the slot and into the chute.

2. The combination in a ticket holder of a casing body having a chute and alined openings in the walls of said chute and also having'a discharge-opening below and in 5 alinement with the chute, a rockable keypiece arranged in the casing body in alinement with the said openings of the chute walls and having a lateral arm, a springpressed support normally maintained with its forward portion between the lower end of the chute and the discharge opening, a lever mounted in the lower portion of the casing body, a connection between one arm of said lever and the ticket support, and a connection between the other arm of the lever and the lateral arm of the rockable key-piece. V

3. The combination in a ticket'holder, of a casing body having a front wallin which is a display opening and a false front wall between which and the front wall is formed a chute and also having registered openings in the front wall and false front wall and a discharge opening below and in spaced re-' lation to the lower,end of the chute, and a recess or notch in the inner side of the front wall below the chute, a spindle fixed to and extending forwardly from the back wall of the casing body in alinement with the regis tered openings in the front wall and the false front wall, a rockable key-piece on said spindle and having an arm, a spring-pressed ticketsupport mounted in the casing body, a lever mounted in the lower portion of the casing body and having its forward arm connected with the ticket support, and a rod interposed between and connecting the rear arm of the lever and thearmon the rockable key-piece.

tures.

AUGUST, YEMIL'IAN-I. JOSHUA ROSSINI.

In testimony whereof we affix our sigma 

